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Necessitate v. t. (past & past part. necessitated; pres. part. necessitating)

To make necessary or indispensable; to render unavoidable. "Sickness (might) necessitate his removal from the court." "This fact necessitates a second line."

To reduce to the necessity of; to force; to compel. "The Marquis of Newcastle, being pressed on both sides, was necessitated to draw all his army into York."

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Etymology of 'Necessitate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... little copyist proceeded with her work, she sent every now and then a responsive glance toward her admirer. The cultivation of the fine arts appeared to necessitate, to her mind, a great deal of byplay, a great standing off with folded arms and head drooping from side to side, stroking of a dimpled chin with a dimpled hand, sighing and frowning and patting of the foot, fumbling in disordered tresses for wandering hair-pins. These ...

— The American • Henry James

... to have a gap of much more than a distance equal to the chord, owing to the drift produced by the great length of struts and wires such a large gap would necessitate. By staggering the top surface forward, however, it is removed from the action of the lower surface and engages undisturbed air, with the result that the efficiency can in this way be increased by about 5 per cent. Theoretically the top plane should be staggered forward for a distance equal to ...

— The Aeroplane Speaks - Fifth Edition • H. Barber

... agreed, and the boys put their names down. As Noddy had stipulated there must be four passengers in each car it would necessitate the motor boys getting some one else to ride with them. This the clerk agreed ...

— The Motor Boys on the Pacific • Clarence Young

... mystery was now clear. The "ghost" was a freight thief, who had himself shipped, in a box, to some point which would necessitate his being transferred and held over night at the freight junction. He played "ghost" either to frighten the operator away, or to lead to the belief that any noises overheard were caused by "spirits," then overhauled the valuable ...

— The Young Railroaders - Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity • Francis Lovell Coombs

... and if there be any one who is still unconvinced that Cromwell, of his own 'choice,' enticed the Earl of Rochester and his associates across the Channel, and admitted them into England, that they might constrain and necessitate him to appoint those Major-Generals, 'we can with comfort appeal' to that 'Declaration' and ask such a believer in Cromwell to follow us in a comparison between what he really did, with what he declared he ...

— The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 • Various

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